treasure indeed. She looked especially glowing at the last Oscars. Just keeps getting better, a real inspiration. It's very clear that 90% of H.wood film screenplays are written by men. That must change.

... is the woman's marketability as a bride. I submit that tells us all we need to know about the article.

-- Mal

not to mention, the stats mentioned in that article were nonsense.

did you ever see this?:


Newsweek's Apology Comes 20 Years Too Late


Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Newsweek has issued a grand correction: Contrary to a cover story 20 years ago, single women over 40 actually do marry. Caryl Rivers says the article was clearly wrong at the time and fed media gospel about the woes of ambitious women.
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Caryl Rivers

(WOMENSENEWS)--"We were wrong!"

You almost never see these words on the cover of a major magazine, but on June 5, Newsweek said just that. The magazine headlined, in boxcar type, "20 years ago, Newsweek predicted that a single, 40-year-old woman had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than getting married."

. . . . .

Newsweek deserves a bouquet for its story. Half the flowers should be roses, for admitting in such a public way that the terrorist story turned out to be utterly bogus. The other half should be stinkweed, because a lot of people knew full well at the time that the notion was laughable. Why did the correction take so long?





Before long, there was hardly a female in the nation who hadn't heard the dire predictions about women who delay marriage. One of Nora Ephron's single women in her 1993 "Sleepless in Seattle" cited the terrorist "fact."
. . . . .

But the man shortage, as Katha Pollitt pointed out in The Nation in September of 1986, was "really an older man shortage, and a temporary one at that."





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One reason an obscure demographic study acquired such long "legs" as a news story, Newsweek admits, is that the magazine came up with the catchy "killed by a terrorist" line, which was not in the academic study.
The line was first written as a joke in a memo from correspondent Pamela Abramson.
"It's true; I am responsible for the single most irresponsible line in the history of journalism, all meant in jest," Abramson told Newsweek last week.

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http://womensenews.org/story/uncovering-gender/060614/newsweeks-apology-comes-20-years-too-late

I stopped reading Newsweek a long time ago... I'll ask the same question, though, why did it take 20 years to issue a correction? Why, you'd almost think they didn't regret the story at all.

-- Mal